How To Install VMware Server On A CentOS 5.0 Desktop | Linux Today

How To Install VMware Server On A CentOS 5.0 Desktop

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
May 22, 2007

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to
install VMware Server on a CentOS 5.0 desktop system. With VMware
Server you can create and run guest operating systems (‘virtual
machines’) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host
operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple
operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money,
and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the
next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also
free).

“Also, with VMware Server you can let your old Windows
desktop… run under your CentOS desktop…”

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Story

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Falko Timme

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